Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau", with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience...

Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable - Phoronix

For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver 'Nouveau', with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel rele...

KDE Krita Merge Request Opened For Wayland Color Management The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays...

KDE Krita Merge Request Opened For Wayland Color Management - Phoronix

The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux d...

Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...

Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More - Phoronix

This week's round of HID subsystem 'fixes' for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and ot...

Wayfire 0.10 Wayland Compositor Brings Experimental Vulkan Rendering Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled. In turn this opens up Wayfire to having experimental support for rendering using the Vulkan API...

Wayfire 0.10 Wayland Compositor Brings Experimental Vulkan Rendering - Phoronix

Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled

DXVK 2.7.1 Delivers Improved Performance For Some Direct3D 9 Titles Philip Rebohle working for Valve just released DXVK 2.7.1 as the newest version of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan API translation layer. DXVK 2.7.1 enables yet more games to correctly render now with DXVK on Linux...

DXVK 2.7.1 Delivers Improved Performance For Some Direct3D 9 Titles - Phoronix

Philip Rebohle working for Valve just released DXVK 2.7.1 as the newest version of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan API translation layer

GTK 4.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Rendering Enhancements GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project. GTK 4.20 brings improved support for Wayland on Linux along with platform enhancements for macOS, Android, and Windows too...

GTK 4.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Rendering Enhancements - Phoronix

GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project

GNOME Executive Director Steps Down After Four Months It was barely four months ago that the GNOME Foundation announced its new Executive Director, Steven Deobald, who was taking over afterHolly Million stepped down after less than one year. Today Deobald announced he is stepping down as the Executive Director...

GNOME Executive Director Steps Down After Four Months - Phoronix

It was barely four months ago that the GNOME Foundation announced its new Executive Director, Steven Deobald, who was taking over afterHolly Millio...

Linux 6.17 Showing Off Some Nice Gains For 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Performance Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and development kernels compared to the Long Term Support (LTS) kernels over the past four years. For having hardware support back to Linux 5.15 I was using an AMD EPYC Milan-X server. In those benchmarks there were some nice …

Linux 6.17 Showing Off Some Nice Gains For 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Performance - Phoronix

Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and develop...

Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For 8x MSAA The newest feature addition for Mesa 25.3 is enabling support 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) within the LLVMpipe software rasterizer...

Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For 8x MSAA - Phoronix

The newest feature addition for Mesa 25.3 is enabling support 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) within the LLVMpipe software rasterizer.

Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series With Mesa 25.2.1 recently having been released, the prior quarter's Mesa 25.1 series is now drawing to a close. Excellent Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.9 as one last point release for Mesa 25.1 before ending this branch...

Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series - Phoronix

With Mesa 25.2.1 recently having been released, the prior quarter's Mesa 25.1 series is now drawing to a close